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Bertram, TX

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Overview


Bertram is a very small city located in the state of Texas. With a population of 2,016 people and just one neighborhood, Bertram is the 710th largest community in Texas.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Bertram, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 35.42% of Bertram’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Bertram is a city of service providers, construction workers and builders, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Bertram who work in sales jobs (9.93%), management occupations (9.56%), and maintenance occupations (8.58%).

Setting & Lifestyle

One downside of living in Bertram is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Bertram, the average commute to work is 37.00 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

Demographics

In terms of college education, the citizens of Bertram rank slightly lower than the national average. 16.39% of adults 25 and older in Bertram have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 21.84% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community.

The per capita income in Bertram in 2018 was $30,660, which is middle income relative to Texas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $122,640 for a family of four. However, Bertram contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Bertram is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Bertram home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Bertram residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Bertram also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 34.33% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Bertram include Irish, German, English, Italian, and Scots-Irish.

The most common language spoken in Bertram is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.

The Neighbors

How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.

The neighbors in the neighborhood in Bertram are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 70.1% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 3.3% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 70.4% of America's neighborhoods.

A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.

In the neighborhood, 32.6% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 26.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (25.3%), and 13.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 92.9% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (6.3%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.

In the neighborhood in Bertram, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (28.3%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (15.2%), and residents who report Mexican roots (14.5%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (12.6%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (2.9%), among others.

Getting to Work

How you get to work – car, bus, train or other means – and how much of your day it takes to do so is a large quality of life and financial issue. Especially with gasoline prices rising and expected to continue doing so, the length and means of one's commute can be a financial burden. Some neighborhoods are physically located so that many residents have to drive in their own car, others are set up so many walk to work, or can take a train, bus, or bike. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (29.7% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.

Here most residents (82.4%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors to get to work (5.8%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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